By native amateurs, even now, the region is called "wild," though to American eyes it seems thoroughly suburban in its smoothness and finish.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, October, 1877. Vol XX - No. 118 by Various

The Morning Post. —"An exceptionally clever and entertaining novel; the reader is compelled to finish the book when he has once taken it up....
— from A Traitor's Wooing by Headon Hill

Another common reading is latrantem , but this was evidently not the reading in Chaucer's copy; MS. C. has lacerantem .
— from Chaucer's Works, Volume 2 (of 7) — Boethius and Troilus by Geoffrey Chaucer

Even next the roof I cannot Find the rest for which I'm pining;
— from The Trumpeter of Säkkingen: A Song from the Upper Rhine. by Joseph Victor von Scheffel

Secondly, however much men may differ in unessentials, they share their essential nature, their reason, in common.
— from A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by W. T. (Walter Terence) Stace

It’s a losing game even then, especially now that rinderpest is clearing us all out.
— from In the Whirl of the Rising by Bertram Mitford